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Badajoz

American  
[bah-thah-hawth] / ˌbɑ ðɑˈhɔθ /

noun

  1. a city in SW Spain.


Badajoz British  
/ ˈbædəˌhɒz, baˈðaxoθ /

noun

  1. a city in SW Spain: strategically positioned near the frontier with Portugal. Pop: 138 415 (2003 est)

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The victory in Badajoz left Spain with 10 points in the group.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 5, 2021

Cortés was born and reared in Medellín, province of Badajoz, in Extremadura.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 6, 2020

It details the English-Portuguese army's second siege of the Spanish city of Badajoz, which took place in May and June 1811, during the Napoleonic Wars.

From BBC • May 9, 2016

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Spanish doctor Javier Benítez, 24 Photograph: Shaun Walker Javier Benítez, a 24-year-old doctor from Badajoz in Spain, arrived in Donbass in February and has been based near Luhansk, treating civilians and rebels.

From The Guardian • Sep. 24, 2015

This occurred at Badajoz, where the court was then established, as a convenient place for overlooking the war in which the country was at that time engaged with Portugal.

From History of The Reign of Philip The Second King of Spain Volume The Third and Biographical & Critical Miscellanies by Prescott, William Hickling